Today, philanthropy is fragmenting and evidence-based funders are more distracted than ever. They may be easier to find, but they’re also much more difficult to engage and convince. To compete for scarce funding dollars and advance your mission in an increasingly competitive philanthropic marketplace, you need to adopt a strategic approach. And that means building an airtight case for your program. A case built, not upon good intentions and anecdotal success stories alone, but upon a vast mountain of evidence, so you not only earn, but sustain the confidence of funders looking for a smart return on social investment. Where do you start?
Demonstrating return on social investment starts with Impact Measurement.
Impact Measurement is about engaging evidence-based funders with the meaningful outcomes and impact that results from your program. It’s about quantitatively demonstrating how the work you do makes a difference in the lives of the people and communities you serve. Ultimately, it’s about transforming your program into an intelligent investment for evidence-based funders, so you can advance your mission, expand your impact, and help more people. And that’s where Pangea Foundation comes in. We simplify your life with intelligent data management solutions so you can quickly and easily get the facts. Our Impact Measurement software makes it easy for high-impact nonprofits to:
- Capture program outputs (e.g., number of students served)
- Track Key Performance Indicators (KPI) to gauge progress in achieving outcomes
- Measure intermediate program outcomes (e.g., improvements in grade point average)
- Measure ultimate impact (e.g., more students graduating from high school and going to college)
It’s the software you need to demonstrate Results-Based Accountability.
Here’s how we see it: Measuring impact and demonstrating Results-Based Accountability shouldn’t cause headaches. It should be painless. And we help make that the guaranteed reality with easy-to-learn and easy-to-use Software as a Service that gives you clear and accurate visibility across your entire organization. We don’t just deliver outcomes tracking software. We deliver up-to-the-second Nonprofit Visual Intelligence™ to give you instant insight into your impact, anytime you want. It speeds decision-making, and makes Impact Measurement and Results-Based Accountability a breeze.
Nonprofit Business Intelligence—the leading cause of intelligent decisions.
With instant Nonprofit Business Intelligence at your fingertips, there’s no more waiting hours, even days, for your IT organization to produce performance reports. Now you and those you authorize, can generate persuasive Impact Reports with just one click, so you can act quickly and decisively to drive predictable performance and expand your impact.
Choose from a variety of visual analytics to monitor and measure everything that’s important, in a way that’s understandable and meaningful. Take advantage of custom nonprofit dashboards, charts, gauges, and maps that put you in complete control of your program. With nonprofit dashboards, you’ll be able to monitor multiple performance metrics in a consolidated view, giving you instant access to both the big and the small picture.
Use quantitative Impact Measurement to support qualitative success stories.
Impact Measurement won’t eliminate the importance of qualitative success stories. We’ll admit—it’s not the be-all and end-all underpinning every successful funding stream. It’s simply about how deeply you want to connect with your audience. And everyone can agree that the most persuasive communications strategies blend qualitative success stories together with quantitative data. By striking the right balance between the anecdotal and the empirical, you’ll make a stronger case for your program. And with empirical data to support your narrative vignettes, your program will become an intelligent investment for funders who want to make an impact.
Funders not only support the nonprofits we work with—they invest in them.
Communicate program impact by approaching it emotionally and logically, and you’ll connect with your audience’s heart, and head. Connect on a deep enough level and they’re engaged for life. Beyond being supportive, they become intelligent investors in your program and the people you serve. So bring your anecdotal stories and empirical data together. Take feeling and inject it with fact.
Where once there was only a story, proof is unleashed.
